Renaissance Health Publishing, LLC Warns the Public that ConsumerLab.com is Not Independent and Labels the 'CL Seal of Approval' a Worthless, Paid-For Advertising Gimmick

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BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Renaissance Health
Publishing, LLC is publicly disputing ConsumerLab.com, LLC's (CL) claims
that they are a "leading provider of independent test results and
information to help consumers and healthcare professionals evaluate health,
wellness, and nutrition products," chiefly objecting to ConsumerLab.com's
self-portrayal of being independent, and is warning consumers that it
believes that the "CL Seal of Approval" is nothing more than an advertising
gimmick.

"I simply don't believe the repeated advertising and editorial
assertions of ConsumerLab.com that it is independent," says James
DiGeorgia, CEO of Renaissance Health Publishing, LLC. "In my opinion,
ConsumerLab.com's representation that it is an independent consumer
advocate is a fraudulent, deceptive and unfair practice constructed
specifically to mislead consumers."

Renaissance Health believes that consumers are being duped by
ConsumerLab.com in a number of ways:

-- The very name ConsumerLab.com is misleading, as they are not a lab

-- ConsumerLab.com refuses to open their records of who has paid for (and

passed and failed) testing for the "CL Seal of Approval"

-- ConsumerLab.com issues sensationalized "name and shame" releases,

without checking for current formulations and without clearly

disclosing associations with companies that have paid for advertising

and their services

-- ConsumerLab.com is not independent, as they charge consumers for their

"impartial" reports, while at the same time accepting advertising

revenue from companies they test

"The very name of the company chosen by its owners is deceptive. They
are not a lab and outsource testing to commercial labs and charge up to
eight times what other commercial labs charge. If the contents of the
tested product match the label you get a report and the use of their CL
Seal of Approval," says DiGeorgia.

Renaissance Health has repeatedly asked that ConsumerLab.com open their
records for inspection.

"ConsumerLab.com should have to show how many companies and individuals
have submitted products under its voluntary review program for a CL Seal of
Approval-and paid the $3,000 to $4,000 they charge-and see how many of
these products did and didn't eventually pass," says DiGeorgia.

"ConsumerLab.com tested our old formulation of Revatrol that hasn't
been available for more than nine months. What reputable testing agency
would test such an old, out-of-date product, without double-checking to
ensure they're testing the current product?" asks an exasperated DiGeorgia.

When ConsumerLab.com was made aware of the fact that they tested a
discontinued formulation, they asked Renaissance Health to pay a sizeable
fee to test the current product.

"They had the audacity to ask us to pay $3,000 to $4,000 to test the
current formulation - the very formulation they should have tested from the
start; the formulation that had been on the market for more than nine
months at the time of their testing.

"We had the current formulation of Revatrol recently tested by a
commercial laboratory not affiliated with our manufacturer. And we quickly
discovered that not only does our formulation include everything claimed on
the label and in the advertising, but we give our customers much more of
the Trans-Resveratrol, Resveratrol, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Acetyl-L-Carnitine
and Quercetin than what's promised.

"Best of all our formulation gives our customers a 95% OPC. Thus,
despite the fact that our product has more of everything we claim and is by
far the most complete formulation, Revatrol won't ever receive a 'CL Seal
of Approval' because we won't pay," says DiGeorgia.

Renaissance Health also says that claims of independence by
ConsumerLab.com are compromised by its revenue model.

"I believe that any company that both charges consumers for its ratings
and sells advertising to the parent companies of the products they are
currently testing or may test in the future is NOT independent, and we're
not the first to recognize this farce," suggests DiGeorgia.

DiGeorgia points to the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), who,
in 2005, asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate ConsumerLab.com
for deceptive business practices as one such example.

CRN pointed out that in the very letter ConsumerLab.com sent to the FTC
in an attempt to defend its business, ConsumerLab.com "admits to the very
business practices about which we are complaining, but in a manner so
oblique that only those of us who fully understand the ConsumerLab business
plan will comprehend the admission," reports DiGeorgia.

Additionally, in August 2006, Marc Ullman, a New York City attorney and
who also manages FYI Newsletter, which highlights legal and regulatory
issues concerning the Natural Product Industry, wrote:

"Since its inception, ConsumerLab.com has succeeded in presenting itself

to the mainstream media as an impartial watchdog of the dietary

supplement industry. It has managed to accomplish this despite the

fundamentally flawed nature of its basic business plan - ConsumerLab.com

solicits money from both the industry it purports to police and the

consumers it purports to protect. (Not to mention that it is not a lab

either.)"

"ConsumerLab.com has now taken the conflict of interest one step
further, and we believe has completely exposed the absurdity of its claim
to independence," says Michael London, general manager of Renaissance
Health Publishing, LLC.

"They're currently allowing a competitor of ours to advertise on the
ConsumerLab.com website. And by allowing a link back to the competitor's
Web site ConsumerLab.com is allowing this competitor-who we have been in
litigation with for more than a year-to use the misleading and out-of-date
ConsumerLab.com study of our product to deceive consumers."

Renaissance Health believes that ConsumerLab.com is being punitive, and
has allowed its competitor to take advantage of a misleading report because
Renaissance Health has asked extremely tough credibility questions of
ConsumerLab.com publicly, which they have yet to answer. Those questions
include:

-- Question 1: Is ConsumerLab.com really a lab or does the company ALWAYS

contract outside labs to conduct product testing?

-- Question 2: Will ConsumerLab.com please make public all monies received

from all companies and persons connected with any and all products they

have tested?

-- Question 3: Why is ConsumerLab.com a for-profit company instead of a

not-for-profit?

Renaissance Health has stated that it will not allow ConsumerLab.com or
its competitor to get away with misleading the public, and that it plans on
continuing to exercise its legal rights to try and put an end to this type
of abuse of the consumer trust.

Renaissance Health's Revatrol product is so strong that its principal
competitor simply can't compete. The competitor has been discounting its
product (selling 12 for the price of eight) while Renaissance Health can't
manufacture Revatrol fast enough to keep up with the growing demand.

"They make two big claims about their product, both of which are based
on flawed logic," says DiGeorgia.

The competitor claims a shelf-life of more than two (2) years and that
a special capsule makes that long shelf-life possible.

"Anyone taking supplements should stick with fresh product. We can't
make Revatrol fast enough to keep our supply more than 90 days-and we're
ordering in batches of 50,000 units at a time! Who cares about the capsule,
when you should be taking a fresh supplement," says DiGeorgia.

"The proof is in the numbers: we keep selling out our inventory," says
Michael London operations manager of Renaissance Health. "Our sales
continue to grow as tens of thousands of eager buyers are inundating us
with orders and re-orders. The good guys are winning and it's making the
competition crazy. Our testing proves that Revatrol delivers much more than
our competitor, for the same money or less."

Renaissance Health says any competitor is welcome to what they and the
other professionals in the Health Supplement and Vitamin Industry consider
a worthless ConsumerLab.com Seal of Approval.

"Boasting about a quality seal that you pay for as being a reason to
buy our competitor's product smacks of pure desperation," concludes
DiGeorgia.

For more information on Revatrol and its potent benefits, please visit
http://www.revatrol.com/ or call our knowledgeable representatives at
1-866-482-6678.

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